Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty YearsA fascinating look at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work. Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies explore these changes and the impact they will have on everyday life. For example, by the year 2010: |
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... build . However , we pity the poor marketing department ordered to sell it . Typing a single character on this little box requires pressing several keys at once - your index and middle fingers for " A , " perhaps , your thumb and ring ...
... Corporation to build the fastest computer yet : a parallel - processing ma- chine that will link more than 9,000 of the company's top - of - the - line Pentium Pro chips . The new machine will be the 10 P R W S B A B R R E M I.
... build it . By Christmas , Adelman had worked out the details . He had also decided to test his new computer on a difficult mathematical challenge known as the traveling salesman problem : What is the shortest route among a group of ...
... build up their own per- sonal experience , but they never create the kind of heritage of reusable parts that mechanical engineers and architects rely on . If a new project must send information to a printer , someone must write a ...
... Build- ings fell . And thousands of computer - literate Americans showed the rest of us what it is like to live with access to the Net , the global computer network that is now penetrating into homes throughout the developed world . For ...
Contents
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Bricks for the HighTech Future | 63 |
Engineering One Atom at a Time | 85 |
You Can Get There from Here | 105 |
The Long Climb Back to Space | 132 |
Energy Without Tears | 151 |
Nursing an Injured Planet | 174 |
Medicine for the New Millennium | 197 |
A Timetable for the Future | 229 |
Index | 285 |
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